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" As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself. "

" At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way. "

" But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. "

" But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not. "

" Eventually there are going to be cities in space. "

" History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. "

" I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth. "

" I can remember walking on the moon. "

" I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth. "

" I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about. "

" I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. "

" I found I have to stay painting. "

" If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do. "

" I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon. "

" I have the nicest life in the world. "

" It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon. "

" It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it. "

" I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that. "

" I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we've been trained to do, to try to maximize every really minute on the moon. "

" Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them. "

" On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do. "

" One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair. "

" The moon is very rugged. "

" We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. "

" We're going through all the checklist, getting in position to make the entry and all that... And I think either Pete, Dick, or I said, 'Well, I wonder how those parachutes are doing?' And then someone else said... 'Well, we'll find out in about 55 minutes!' "

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